Executive Committee Recruitment

Below is a recruitment resource to promote Executive Committee roles to potential volunteers. It gives basic information about what it means to be a charity trustee and reasons why it is a great volunteer role to take on. It is available to download or to order from Scout Shops free of charge.

AGMs

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a compulsory yearly meeting of the Group/District/County Scout Council with important legal aspects and key, mandatory business that must be covered. But that doesn’t mean that it needs to be boring, lengthy or tedious.

Here are a few tips that may help you when organising your next AGM:

An AGM needs to be advertised in plenty of time before the scheduled date to ensure full attendance

Try holding the AGM in combination with another event e.g. a presentation evening, family camp or summer barbeque

Include videos, slide shows or photo montages of the events that have taken place in the Group, District or County over the past year

Allow social time before and after the event so that people can get to know each other

Get young people involved – it’s great for parents to get to see what their children have been doing

Keep the meeting focused and allow around 30 minutes for the key business

Make sure that discussions don’t digress from items scheduled on the agenda

Invite members of the community who might be affected by or interested in Scouting

Ask people to contribute to the agenda to avoid ‘any other business’

AGM resources

Do you need help creating posters and invitations to advertise your AGM? Do you want to create folders for your annual reports? Simply log in and click on the Print Centre link to get started with creating resources for your AGM.

Section Leaders and the Executive Committee

All Section Leaders (i.e. individuals holding a Beaver Scout Leader, Cub Scout Leader or Scout Leader role) need to indicate to the Group AGM that they wish to sit on the Executive Committee as an ex-officio member. This can be done in writing or orally at the AGM.

The Declaration of Intent form can be used by Section Leaders to indicate in writing that they wish to sit on the Executive Committee. Once completed, the form will need to be passed to the Chair of the Executive Committee before the AGM.